The Penn's Grove record., 1887-09-17

of all Others. Take the matter nome
to %yourown business and do as You
would be done by.
The Vienna correspondent describes
the Vienna medical student as a ''poly-
glotic, nondescr1pt being-German,
Belgian, Hungarian, British-Anything
but gentleman"
-Rumors of deals among the street
railway people are floating about in st.
LOUIS. There is said to be a DISPOSE
ton on the part of some of the railway
magnates to consolidate all the roads.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company, it Is stated, has decided to
equip its passenger cars with the West
inghouse automatic air brake. 1t has
also been decided to adopt a better
system of signals.
All kinds of fruit sell for higher
prices in the Hudson river district
than in New York. Potatoes that sell
in the city for 81. 80 to 81 80 a barrel,
sell in New Paltz, where they are grown.
for $2.40.
There are but three survivors of
the eighteen actors who played 'Our
American Cousin" on the night Of
President Lincoln's assassination IN
Ford's Theatre-Harry Hawk, W. j..
Ferguson and John Mathews.
Sergeant George Fleischman, of
the Eleventh Regiment, New York,
wants any man In the National Guard
or Grand Army to walk him for six
days, equipped in heavy marching
order, as a test of endurance.
The first spectacles were made at
Florence, at about the beginning OF
the fourteenth century by Salvino
~ A1naio i-hrnaiti,=1ltl sSA tSpi~ .-
vention has been enormously credited
both t. Roger Bacon and Alexander
de Spina.
The Russian Prince, Pierre Witt
genstein. a Paris despatch announces,
has died at KenleOn, near Brest, OF
grief for his wife, the daughter of a
Breton fisherman, whom he bad educa-
ted. He leaves his vast fortune to
Prince Hohenlohe.
The first record we have of coal is
about 800 years before the Christian
era. Coal wa used as fuel in Eng
lam as early as S52, and in 1894 the
first charter to dig for it was granted
by Henry Ill. to the inhabitants of
New-castle-on-Tyne.
Lovers of the waltz may celebrate
its centenary. The first dance which
could be described as a waltz was in
troduced to the public in an opera at
Vienna in 1877 by one Vicent Martlny
Solar Commonly called Martini 10
Gno&nnOlnA uybn NJao a pnnpior nnn1
poser at the court of Joseph Ii.
Among the papers of the late
King of Bavaria, it is stated, have
been found the manuscript of two
light operas on the style of Auber,
written by Richard Wagner when he
was very young. These, it is added.
are now to be published under the
titles the composer gave them, Lies
Fees'' and "Defence d'Aimer."
"A doctor in st. Louis was dis
turbed just after he retired to bed early
the other morning by noises in hisyard.
Taking a revolver with him he peepek
through a window and saw a man en-
d~eavoring to force a pair of shutters on
a lower floor The doctor fired two
shots in succession, and the burglar,
who gave the name of LANCER, re-
ceived a probably fatal wound in the
neck.
Physicians are usually free from
superstition, and they generally treat
with ridicule the class of remedies
known as sold women's cures" but
we know of a prominent member of
that profession, now retired from prac-
tice, who AYERS that he cured himself
of "a rheumatic trouble, of a painful
character and long standing, by carry
ing in his pocket a potato about the
size of a horse chestnut. This he was
induced to do ly an old lady friend,
and the doctor afirms, upon his honor,
that it cured him within "A few months,
and that while the witnered vegetable
is in his pocket not a tinge Of the dls-
ease is felt. He does not attempt to
account for it.
"A strange freak of lightning is re-
ported from the town of Ramapo,
Rockland county, New York, The
house of August Bolger stands alone In
n remote part of the town, nearly sur.
rounded by large trees. During a
heavy thunderstorm an unusually sharp
flash of lightning was seen, and Mr..
Bolger, who was in q shed. entered the
house and saw a pet dog and cat both
lying dead in the room neal the fire
place. A dark line raj across the floor,
which was uncarpeted, and led out of
the front door. Going outside, Mr..
Bolger discovered that a part of the
railing on one side OF the front stoop
had been torn away. The lightning
evidently came down the chimney.
l may do little or l may do much.
That matters not. 1t must be my own
work. And by doing my own work,
poor as 1t may seem to mel shall
better fulfil Gods end in making me
what / am, and more truly glority HIS
name, than if 1 were either going out
of my own sphere to do the wclK Of
another, or calling in another into my
sphere to do my proper work for me.
The great mistake that men make Is
i'm the idea that they must be holy tC
become heirs ; the truth is they must
become heirs in order to be holy. We
do not serve in order TO become sons,
but we must become sons in order
rie htly to serve. 1t is 4 those who believe
in his name that have the power, the
privilege to become the sons of God.